Teaching and tutoring are closely related. Questioning is one of the most
often used teaching techniques according to Kim and Kellough (1987).
According to Callahan and Clarke (1988), the use of questions is one of the
most important of all teaching techniques. Questioning will stimulate
thinking, assess student progress, motivate students to pay attention,
provide repetition, emphasize key points, and many more things.

Questions that you might use during your tutoring sessions include
probing questions. Probing questions follow up on a student's contribution.
A probing question generally follows an initial question from the tutor and
a response from the tutee. Probing questions ask students to extend their
knowledge beyond factual recall and "parroting" of learned theories, to
apply what is known to what is unknown, and to elaborate on what is known to
deepen their understanding of this knowledge. Probing questions include
prompting, seeking clarification, seeking critical awareness and refocusing
questions.

Examples:
Rephrase the question in different terms.
Provide a partial answer
Refer to material already mastered

Clarification questions ask for more information. Clarification questions
are useful in clearing up miscommunications and in determining how much the
tutee understands

Examples:
Can you rephrase that?
Can you be more specific?
Can you elaborate on your response?
Can you explain it to me?

Critical awareness questions ask for justification of the response;
requires the student to think more deeply about his response. Critical
awareness questions help the tutee learn the habit of self-monitoring and it
reveals when the tutee is simply reciting memorized material.

Examples:
What are you assuming?
Why do you think that is so?
What is the opposite point of view?
What are some examples you can include?

Refocusing questions moves the discussion on after the tutee has provided
a good response. This type of question helps the tutee see relationships
between ideas. It demonstrates the tutee�s depth of understanding of the
topic.

Examples:
What effects will this have on _____?
How does this idea relate to your thesis/ or to the author�s thesis?
What similarities/difference do you find between these two writers' point of
view?
Can you summarize our discussion?